Hello,
It's nice to be here, and it all looks great.
I realize there's been a lot of input into all of this ramp-up, Kudos to you Roy, and family of folks behind it.
I would not presume to give you bass advice, however, this following might assist in being a Forum admin. Me, I've been "doing" ISP Online service provider "stuff" since circa '95... and when recently read this "roll-up" book, or summary of what it's all about (what I call it):
I thought 1) I could'a written it, and years ago :) 2) What a great summary, and 3) it passes my test of having to "grab me" in it's first 50pp, great if you're OCD :), or ADD :).
This is a great, at least the first 50pp/Part One of book, summary that anyone, including my self found as a good reminder regarding Online Communities (which this is) and the Group Formation that needs to occur, and be kept open to reoccur for all the new folks coming in:
ISBN: 978-07879-8825-8 Building Online Learning Communities, by Palloff & Pratt (found at amazon.com).
I'm sure Roy, as a teacher (if online then/now?) has his own thoughts on this... but just in case a friendly "fyi".
Good luck and highest regards,
ustaknow
PS: There are a number of other forums, googlegroups, .coms, who even transferred over to "Online" that lost their "luster" due to old men/women with shallow dept/scope of Netiquette, and of course suffer diminished active meaningful membership aside from a very select few who remain. --This little ditty, could avoid that, or cause, positively the reverse.
As I've always said, and the only one I'm aware of that considers this proactively: "online communication, is not written or spoken, it's assembled via small data chunks (written as spoken), asynchronously, over time in the end users head" ("me" '10 :). --Therefore, be careful to the degree you would consider offense/kudos to have an effect --the greatest online community killer of all, intellectual, cognitive offense --think, then hit that enter/submit key :).
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